Summary

From the Victorian Government Printing Office, this cabinet of type appears to have been used in the Education section. There are twenty four cases (technical name for drawer) in this cabinet.

Each of the twenty four cases (except one) in the cabinet is full of new and unused monotype and it may be surmised that when the Government Printing Office ceased hot metal production and moved to dispose of its monotype casters they filled the cases with the specific view of retaining examples of hot metal. The Cabinet is from F. T. Wimble and is a beautiful example of 20th century printer's furniture.

Most of Museum Victoria's collection of priinting type is kept in purpose-built cabinets that were used to house type when that type was being used for printing. The type kept in a particular cabinet was not necessarily the type that was originally in that cabinet. The type has been catalogued according to the numbered cabinet it is in. In one case, the 'cabinet' is a museum storage container and not an original type cabinet. However, for the sake of consistency, the type has been catalogued as being in a cabinet.

Physical Description

Open fronted wooden cabinet with twenty four wooden slide-out cases (technical name for drawers).

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